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05/10/2019 05:00PM
I have only done one solo trip, it was two years ago and I’m getting excited because I’ve chiseled some time out for a 5 day solo this summer. I can’t wait, lots of miles, but hopefully I’ll see some areas that other people rarely get to and I’m also hoping to get into some fish. Back to the topic of this thread...I found myself talking/narrating during my solo trip all the time. I have no idea why and I kept telling myself to stop, but I just couldn’t. In my defense, I was filming parts of my trip, but I was talking just as much when I wasn’t filming. Do any of you have this tendency as well? Or am I the creepy one talking to himself out in the woods as others paddle by thinking I’m crazy?
Tony
Tony
Tony
05/10/2019 05:29PM
If I find I'm talking to myself, I just take my hearing aids out . . . :)
Sometimes I talk to the birds, but that's for the birds . . .
Other times I talk to the wind . . . but the answer to that's blowin' in the wind
It seems like you're the only in your group that's worried about it . . . so don't worry. Have a good trip! Get a recorder and record it - I'm sure we'd find the narrative interesting.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Enjoy your trip man! :)
Sometimes I talk to the birds, but that's for the birds . . .
Other times I talk to the wind . . . but the answer to that's blowin' in the wind
It seems like you're the only in your group that's worried about it . . . so don't worry. Have a good trip! Get a recorder and record it - I'm sure we'd find the narrative interesting.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Enjoy your trip man! :)
05/10/2019 11:14PM
I have only done one solo. I did talk to the gods out loud about the crappy weather and I talked to birds and squirrels. I don't think I really talked to myself out loud much but sometimes I would be thinking something and I wasn't sure after if I said it out loud or in my head. To me a solo was so quiet even my thoughts seemed loud I guess. It was a long solo and I loved it!
05/11/2019 07:02AM
This is a funny subject. I catch myself blurting out phrases like I am talking to someone next to me.
In the evening around a campfire I hear a noise in the woods.
"What the fuck was that?"
Paddling on a lake with such beauty only a poet could describe.
"Thank you Lord for my life"
On a portage trail and a grouse will not let me pass.
"Hey buddy!"
In the evening around a campfire I hear a noise in the woods.
"What the fuck was that?"
Paddling on a lake with such beauty only a poet could describe.
"Thank you Lord for my life"
On a portage trail and a grouse will not let me pass.
"Hey buddy!"
05/15/2019 07:28PM
In order to avoid talking to myself I:
Talk to the birds;
Talk to the trees;
Talk to my video recorder;
you see - there are lots of ways to avoid talking to yourself in the wilderness: I was fortunate enough to not see a single person on the portage in all the way to the portage out - so I talked alot, just not to myself! (it was only 4 days and 3 nights)
Talk to the birds;
Talk to the trees;
Talk to my video recorder;
you see - there are lots of ways to avoid talking to yourself in the wilderness: I was fortunate enough to not see a single person on the portage in all the way to the portage out - so I talked alot, just not to myself! (it was only 4 days and 3 nights)
"it is tough to beat a person who doesn't quit" - famous philosopher George Ruth
05/15/2019 09:05PM
I'm the only one there. Takes a short time, but I always end up talking to myself. I do it at work all day, seems only natural that I would do it at other times too. There are a lot of the 'why did you do that dumbass?' kinds of things. Paddle more on x side, remember to J-stroke, watch the rocks! It's all good, you're not alone
05/17/2019 08:31PM
tumblehome: "This is a funny subject. I catch myself blurting out phrases like I am talking to someone next to me.
In the evening around a campfire I hear a noise in the woods.
"What the fuck was that?"
Paddling on a lake with such beauty only a poet could describe.
"Thank you Lord for my life"
On a portage trail and a grouse will not let me pass.
"Hey buddy!""
Lol. I say random stuff out loud like this too!
I also have found myself singing on multiple occasions.
For the most part I’m a fairly quiet person otherwise.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread; places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul" -John Muir
05/18/2019 10:28PM
On a group trip I will say hello to whoever I might meet on a portage.
On a solo, well, that is another story.
A number of years ago I was on a week late fall trip to the Q and hardly saw a soul. On a portage near Cairn Lake somewhere I ran into another solo guy on a portage. We stood and talked for at least 20 minutes in the middle of the portage. With our canoes on our backs...............
On a solo, well, that is another story.
A number of years ago I was on a week late fall trip to the Q and hardly saw a soul. On a portage near Cairn Lake somewhere I ran into another solo guy on a portage. We stood and talked for at least 20 minutes in the middle of the portage. With our canoes on our backs...............
05/22/2019 03:16PM
As a rule - no. however, when I was on my 32 day solo years back in Woodland Caribou I was hurt and stuck on peninsula for 15 days. I started to get lonely ... so every day for about 45 minutes or so, I would go "visiting". I would imagine having a conversation with my wife or a buddy of mine etc and would "visit" them. Thinking out loud might be a better way to describe it. It made me feel better anyway.
It did not make me any crazier than I was already either, but helped me from being depressed while I was injured and stuck.
Bob.
It did not make me any crazier than I was already either, but helped me from being depressed while I was injured and stuck.
Bob.
05/23/2019 07:55PM
I talk to myself, or think to myself quite a bit. I talk to my wife, too, and she tends to listen a lot more when I'm solo tripping. :)
Frenchy said it really well...
"The internal chat is always there. Learning when to pay attention to it and when to ignore it is what makes each solo so special."
Quieting my mind is the most difficult part of the trip, but after a few days it starts to happen.
Frenchy said it really well...
"The internal chat is always there. Learning when to pay attention to it and when to ignore it is what makes each solo so special."
Quieting my mind is the most difficult part of the trip, but after a few days it starts to happen.
Is it proper that the wilderness and its creatures should suffer because we came? RP
06/06/2019 02:40PM
I tend to be an introvert/loner type and don't much like being around people let alone talk to them. But I do like myself and have been known to strike up a conversation with me, myself, and I. One time, on Alder Lake, me got good and pissed at I, and the f-bombs started flying back and forth. Myself was a little concerned, but then things got mellow when a nice Lake Trout got on the line. Me and I made up, and myself went along merrily like nothing happened.
All dorkiness aside, I have been known to talk to my gear on solo trips when things don't 'work' as intended.
All dorkiness aside, I have been known to talk to my gear on solo trips when things don't 'work' as intended.
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06/07/2019 05:30PM
I'll talk to myself in my head but not out loud.
I do tend to get stupid songs stuck in my head that may last 1/2 a day.
That gets annoying.
I do tend to get stupid songs stuck in my head that may last 1/2 a day.
That gets annoying.
May the rivers be crooked and winding, and your portages lonesome, leading to the most amazing view.
06/08/2019 06:33AM
LindenTree: "I'll talk to myself in my head but not out loud.
I do tend to get stupid songs stuck in my head that may last 1/2 a day.
That gets annoying."
OMG YES! The songs..... Sometimes it doesn't stop. It can be motivating on portages sometimes.
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --- George Bernard Shaw
06/15/2019 06:24AM
On my first solo two years ago I found myself talking to myself out loud sometimes. Mostly had to do with safety issues like "take it easy here" or "don't do anything stupid with the saw/knife" or the usual "dumb ass" after I did something stupid......stuff like that. However I will sometimes talk to the various critters I encounter with a pleasant verbal greeting as long as I won't bother them. Why not? They're usually talking to or about me :)
Safe travels.......Mike
Safe travels.......Mike
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